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December 17: Pan American Aviation Day and Wright Brothers Day in the United States; International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers

Memorial to victims killed during the 1970 Polish protests

942 – William Longsword of Normandy was ambushed and assassinated by supporters of Arnulf I, Count of Flanders, while the two were at a peace conference to settle their differences.
1948 – The Finnish Security Police was established to remove communist leadership from its predecessor, the State Police.
1967 – Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming near Portsea, Victoria; his body was never recovered.
1970 – Polish soldiers fired at workers (memorial pictured) emerging from trains in Gdynia, beginning the government's crackdown on mass anti-communist protests across the country.
2010 – Arab Spring: Mohamed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in protest against police harassment, triggering the Tunisian revolution.

Rumi (d. 1273)
Émile Roux (b. 1853)
Willard Libby (b. 1908)
Alicia Boole Stott (d. 1940)

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